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Summary
Summary
The language of young people is central in sociolinguistic research, as it is seen to be innovative and a primary source of knowledge about linguistic change and the role of language. This volume brings together a team of leading scholars to explore and compare linguistic practices of young people in multilingual urban spaces, with analyses ranging from grammar to ideology. It includes fascinating examples from cities in Europe, Africa, Canada and the US to demonstrate how young people express their identities through language, for example in hip-hop lyrics and new social media. This is the first book to cover the topic from a globally diverse perspective, and it investigates how linguistic practices across different communities intersect with age, ethnicity, gender and class. In doing so it shows commonalities and differences in how young people experience, act and relate to the contemporary social, cultural and linguistic complexity of the twenty-first century.
Table of Contents
| Part I Content and Concepts |
| 1 Language, youth and identity in the twenty-first century: content and continuationsBente Ailin Svendsen |
| 2 Contemporary urban vernacularsBen Rampton |
| 3 The politics of labelling youth vernaculars in the Netherlands and BelgiumLeonie Cornips and Jürgen Jaspers and Vincent de Rooij |
| Part II Forms and Functions |
| 4 Beyond verb second - a matter of novel information structural effects? Evidence from Norwegian, Swedish, German and DutchUlrike Freywald and Leonie Cornips and Natalia Ganuza and Ingvild Nistov and Toril Opsahl |
| 5 Functional gains: a cross-linguistic case study on three particles in Swedish, Norwegian and GermanLena Ekberg and Toril Opsahl and Heike Wiese |
| Part III Language Practice, Values and Identity in Media and Popular Culture |
| 6 Shooting the subversive: when non-normative linguistic practices go mainstream in the mediaTommaso M. Milani and Rickard Jonsson and Innocentia Jabulisile Mhlambi |
| 7 Where the fuck am I from? Hip-hop youth and the (re)negotiation of language and identity in Norway and the USCecilia Cutler and Unn Røyneland |
| Part IV Language Practice as Emblems of Becoming and Belonging |
| 8 Emblems of identities in four European urban settingsAdrian Blackledge and Angela Creese |
| 9 Language and language ideologies among Turkish-speaking young people in Athens and LondonVally Lytra |
| Part V Language Practice and Positioning in Interaction |
| 10 Stylized voices of ethnicity and social divisionLian Malai Madsen and Bente A. Svendsen |
| 11 Verbal teasing among young people in Køge and EskisehirHülya Özcan and Lian Malai Madsen and Ilknur Keçik and Jens Normann Jørgensen |
| Part VI Language Practice and Urban Space |
| 12 Indexing locality: contemporary urban vernaculars in Belgium and NorwayFinn Aars'ther and Stefania Marzo and Ingvild Nistov and Evy Ceuleers |
| 13 Urban youth speech styles in Kenya and the NetherlandsMargreet Dorleijn and Maarten Mous and Jacomine Nortier |
| 14 Sociolinguistic practice among multilingual youth: comparing Swedish cities with TorontoSally Boyd and James A. Walker and Michol F. Hoffman |
